From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jul 10 00:49:29 1997
Subject: Re: OCTAVE: Is Array3 available as a 3D array datatype in Octave interperter?
From: Thomas Hoffmann <hoffmann at ehmgs2 dot et dot tu-dresden dot de>
To: braddock at braddock dot com
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 07:46:05 +0200 (METDST)

Yesterday I looked into the user contributed files section of
MATLAB. Under lineraalgebra you can find a file named "array". The
header says:

%Abstract
 
%The collection of M-files for matlab make it possibel to work with
%3-dim and higher dimensional arrays and perform for example the FFT in
%arbitrary dimensions.
 
%The idea of writing this files came to me when I discussed with a
%colleague (a solid state physicist) about MATLAB. We came to the
%conclusion, that he can't use it because there are no possibilities
%to work with 3-dimensional arrays and to perform for example the
%3-dimensional Fourier transformation, which he needs a lot. That
%was the reason why I thought about a general concept to work with
%such arrays in MATLAB. The concept is now allready extended to higher
%dimensions, so that one can do the FFT for arbitrary dimensions.
 
Maybe this can be of use for you.

Thomas.